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Had a great time in Lincoln, UK at the 2015 Nest Construction & Function Conference! Here, I presented my research on material selection in zebra finches, which provides the first concrete evidence that these birds both learn about, and base their material choice on, the structural properties of nesting materials. That birds pay attention to the properties of nesting materials was further supported by research by Nat Warning and Lauryn Benedict on Rock Wrens--very neat! 
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I gave my very first conference talk at the Scottish Conference on Animal Behaviour on my masters research alongside a very impressive group of fellow PhD student speakers.
 I presented a poster at the ASAB Easter 2015 conference in Durham, UK. 
 I have been awarded a PhD Studentship from the School of Biology and a St Leonard's College Scholarship from the University of St Andrews to conduct my doctoral research on social learning in nest-construction behavior in birds under the supervision of Lauren Guillette and Sue Healy. Beginning in February 2015, I will focus on what physical aspects of nesting materials birds may learn about from observing others construct nests.
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